TVC News launches on BskyB

TVC News, the 24-hour pan-African TV news channel from the stables of the Continental Broadcasting Service (CBS) Limited, Lagos, has launched on the UK’s BskyB platform (EPG 572).

The pan-African news channel aims to challenge stereotypes and correct factual inaccuracies and misperceptions about Africa and its peoples.

Its Chief Executive Officer, Nigel Parsons, said: “Without shying away from reporting the conflicts or the corruption, the famines or the wars, the mission of TVC News is also to tell the many positive stories coming out of Africa.” He added: “Stories – good or bad – will be told ‘Through African Eyes’.”

Parsons, who is also former head of Aljazeera English, explained that the news channel serves as a medium for Africans in every part of the world to be heard on the global scene. Through its fair and fearless reporting, TVC News will tell the unreported stories from under-reported regions across the continent, all from an African perspective.